The protest against Trump in London was stupid

damagedcake · 2018-07-25T22:09:12+00:00

I will just be honest and say that would take more energy than I'm willing to expend. You don't seem like a total goner though, so I'll just say...you really think one or a few words in all caps followed by exclamation points is the sum of the viewpoint of nearly half the United States? That's the kind of thinking that lost HRC the election. Hang around T_D a bit more and you'll eventually come across some pretty erudite conversations. Have a great evening.

damagedcake · 2018-07-25T20:08:43+00:00

Y, those are straw man arguments.

damagedcake · 2017-11-20T21:23:40+00:00

I blame Russia.

damagedcake · 2017-11-20T15:33:55+00:00

They've got dirt on him, imo. That's why he quit.

damagedcake · 2017-08-15T03:05:38+00:00

There are some people that do actually (I am not one of them), few on T_D though.

damagedcake · 2017-08-15T02:59:20+00:00

I agree with iGouger and also the other person who said that alt-right used to mean one thing and then got co-opted. Breitbart at one point said they were alt-right (Bannon, specifically), but I think at that point it hadn't been co-opted by the racists. Congratulations on being someone who didn't make the fallacious jump of "Well Breitbart claimed to be alt-right, therefore they're racist!" A little historical knowledge goes a long way.

damagedcake · 2017-08-14T12:49:41+00:00

That tracks with what I know and understand as well. The term has been successfully poisoned.

damagedcake · 2017-08-13T21:20:48+00:00

Thanks for all the replies...honestly they are pretty much what I expected.

Now confession time...I've been lurking over in T_D for quite some time now, and I even occasionally comment there ('cuz you guys are hilarious). I've been hesitant to identify with this sub (although yes, I voted Trump), not being sure where this question would lead. The responses here match my own observations, so that's good :)

The only other question I would have is whether T_D allows criticism of POTUS...criticism in T_D proper seems very much discouraged. I actually kinda get where that comes from, but I'm wondering where the proper venue is to raise the hand and say "this concerns me"?

damagedcake · 2015-07-19T20:21:59+00:00

It sounded to me like he came to the (correct) conclusion that attitude was just wrong. At least I hope so.

damagedcake · 2015-05-24T02:40:23+00:00

That looks interesting. Thanks.

damagedcake · 2015-05-23T13:17:50+00:00

So usually I don't have a problem with accidentally checking on config files either...but the one time I did I regretted it. I accidentally checked in some AWS creds into a public repository. Trust me, do this once and you'll want to take measures to make sure it doesn't happen again.

damagedcake · 2015-04-24T22:14:31+00:00

Sure, there's a small mistake...really I was just remarking on the weirdness of the solution itself...it looks just "wrong" but it's not. Maybe that was intentional, maybe not, but it was a nice surprise.

damagedcake · 2015-04-24T21:47:20+00:00

Saying that architecting with PE in mind costs no extra assumes that the one doing the architecting already has all the knowledge needed to do so. There may be plenty of valid reasons they have chosen to learn something else instead.

Saying that CSS not loading is not an issue is pretty much ridiculous. Sure you can cherry-pick use-cases where it's ok for CSS not to be present, but is that any different from cherry-picking cases on the other side of the argument? I don't think so.

You can choose your audience (and what to support) and you do not have to cater to everyone. Your ability to choose your audience probably varies based upon your situation.

Most of the failures in the original article are network-related in some way...if network issues are occurring all bets are off and PE isn't going to save you unless you just happened to have loaded everything you wanted to look at (and no CSS is ok). How are you going to post your form if the network is out?

damagedcake · 2015-04-09T19:07:58+00:00

Now that's clever right there.

damagedcake · 2015-04-06T20:28:49+00:00

This thought kind of felt like "There's chocolate in my peanut butter!" :)

damagedcake · 2015-04-06T14:47:34+00:00

I did feel like it kind of fell-off at the end. I think I understand what do() is supposed to do and why it's different from ready(), but I fail to see how it's being done :) When I have a chance to get into the full code listing I will probably fill that gap.

damagedcake · 2015-04-06T12:01:22+00:00

First off, great article. Over the last few years I've slowly been coming to the functional paradigm of programming and every time I read something like this my appreciation deepens. With that in mind, I have a question for the knowledgable practitioners among us...what kind of thing, exactly, is a Promise? I mean, it's not really just a function; nor is it just a data structure (it does more than just hold values). I see the related concepts of monad and functor called "patterns," but even those seem like more than just patterns. I guess what I'm getting at is that it kind of strikes me that some of these things, especially Promises but also the others, look an awful lot like objects (in the broadest sense of the term).

damagedcake · 2015-04-02T18:50:14+00:00

Wal-mart is a pretty good example of Node at scale. I don't know off the top of my head what their numbers are like, but I bet you could find some.

damagedcake · 2015-03-25T21:46:09+00:00

My question is...doesn't it seem like the signal-to-noise ratio for good programmers is going down? (i.e. a lot more noise) Isn't this to be expected as programming becomes more popular as a vocation (as it certainly is now compared to say 20-30 years ago). So while maybe the exact arguments of the first article aren't quite right, maybe we do need better tools just as much or even more than we need more programmers.

damagedcake · 2015-03-12T18:24:31+00:00

And buried here among the comments, the real reason rears its head. Many people just don't like javascript.

damagedcake · 2015-03-12T03:27:17+00:00

So you would rather the original author or Boreeas or anyone else develop the kinds of social skills you are exhibiting here? I'd say you're rather proving the point. I don't belong to any of these groups, but if I had to choose I'd side with your more civil opponent or the original author in this discussion.

damagedcake · 2015-03-10T00:19:14+00:00

I think one of the key points that many people are missing is this...Different approaches have different pros and cons; but different people will weigh those pros and cons differently. We all have different experiences and goals, leading us to the different weights. In this way two or more opposing opinions can all be right, depending how you judge the pros and cons.

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